Read Around Europe Challenge
Read at least one book by an author from each country in Europe.
Best books from Europe (2778)
2671.
The King's Speech : How One Man Saved the British Monarchy by Mark Logue, Peter Conradi EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
One man saved the British Royal Family in the first decades of the 20th century - he wasn't a prime minister or an archbishop of Canterbury. He was an almost unknown, and self-taught, speech therapist named Lionel Logue, whom one newspaper in the 1930s famously dubbed 'The Quack who saved a King'. Logue wasn't a British aristocrat or even an Englishman - he was a commoner and an Australian to boot. Nevertheless it was the outgoing, amiable Logue who single-handedly turned the famously nervous, tongue-tied Duke of York into one of Britain's greatest kings after his brother, Edward VIII, abdicat... continue
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The Running Grave: Cormoran Strike Book 7 by Robert Galbraith EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
'The work of a master storyteller' Daily Telegraph 'One of crime's most engaging duos' Guardian THE SUNDAY TIMES CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2023 ________ Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organisation that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths. In order to try to rescue Will, Strike's business partner Robin Ell... continue
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The Magic Finger by Roald Dahl EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Have you ever been angry with someone? I don't suppose you ever turned them into something! When the girl in this story gets really angry, she zaps people with her magic finger, with alarming results. Her teacher grows whiskers and a tail, and you won't believe what happens to the Greggs...they'll never be able to look at a duck in the same way again.
2676.
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Mr Hoppy, a retired bachelor, harbours a secret passion for the attractive widow Mrs Silver. Unfortunately she lavishes all her affection on another . . . Alfie, her pet tortoise. Mr Hoppy's wildly ingenious plot to defeat his rival and win the love of his lady will delight and amaze, involving as it does a cryptic riddle and no fewer than 140 tortoises, large and small.
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George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
George's Grandma is a grizzly, grumpy, selfish old woman with pale brown teeth and a small puckered up mouth like a dog's bottom. Four times a day she takes a large spoonful of medicine, but it doesn't seem to do her any good. She's always just as poisonous after she's taken it as she was before. When George is left to look after her one morning, it's just the chance he needs . . .
2679.
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl EN
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
A young boy escapes from two wicked aunts and embarks on a series of adventures with six giant insects he meets inside a giant peach.
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Din vârful degetelor by Sarah Waters RO
Country: Europe / United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
Sue Trinder este o orfana crescuta in cel mai rau famat cartier al Londrei. Cind Domnu, un escroc prieten de-al casei, ii face o propunere avantajoasa, Sue hotaraste sa conforme asteptarile celor care au ocrotit-o: nu trebuie decit sa cistige increderea unei domnisoare naive dintr-un conac de la tara si sa il ajute pe Domnu s-o cucereasca si sa puna mina pe averea ei. Dar dupa ce Sue ajunge sa o cunoasca pe victima inselaciunii planuite, evenimentele iau o turnura neasteptata... Un roman dickensian, plin de suspans si de rasturnari spectaculoase.